Creating automation tools to solve the most complex automation challenges.

Worked as part of the product certification team in order to certify Qumulo software releases. Also worked on future automation infrastructure and tooling. Created tests tooling and tests for the Qumulo Azure storage product.Started the Qumulo Automation Tooling project standing up a complete Distributed Automation Software stack written in Python3 supporting multiple automation configurations including StandAlone, Multi-Client and Replication scenarios. Re-Organized test code around automation configurations improving scalability of the code. Made improvements to test configurations and configuration management patterns. Made improvements to credential deployment and management techniques. Created an Azure testing environment including networking infrastructure. Established configuration as code automated infrastructure creation for Azure and test job creation using Jenkins and Groovy script. Also, worked on dynamic infrastructure creation for AWS and VMWare.Wrote design documents for "Getting Started", "Testing Guide", "Conding Standards", "Software Architecture", "Configuration Management", "Continuous Integration", "Testing Workflows", "Inter-Operability Design", "Automation Configurations".Implemented MultiClient and Replication load, stress, REST API, Node Add and other tests.Setup test result reporting to CouchDB document store for test results.

Maintained automated tests for Sonos device features including Alarms, Grouping, Bonding, HomeTheater, Playback, Settings and Telemetry. Directly involved with the testing of numerous products including Move, Roam, Ikea Speaker Products, Ray Hometheater, Arc Hometheater, and others not yet released. Worked on player product code (C++) to add telemetry reporting, tweak logging and diagnostics and investigate bugs. Identified product bugs in the kernel, network bridge driver, Airplay, HomeTheater Bonding, UPNP, Settings synchronization and Chirp. Fixed many test framework bugs (Python) with bonding, distributed synchronization issues, stability and race conditions. Containerized test jobs with Docker and Docker Compose. Architected and built a new test framework called AutomationX from the ground up, with logging, device integration, configuration management, improved player selection, improved debugging experience, full jenkins integration, in jenkins remote debugging, tuneable diagnostic output, customizable test output. This test framework was able to solve some very difficult problems with synchronization of changes of state across a Sonos system and synchronized tests flow with distributed state events. Drastically improve results output and diagnostic content. Greatly improve the stability of the code and automation processes.

Implementation, debugging and testing of backend services running on Nginx, GUnicorn, Flask and Flask-RestPlus. Created new repositories for the next version of the backends services and added support for sphinx documentation, linting, integrated testing and full featured debugging of services and tests using Visual Studio Code and upgraded the services and foundation libraries to Python3. Ported the foundation libraries to Python3. Started work on the business layer and middle tier service rewrite as well as client facing service rewrite. Wrote a test framework based on unittest along with test fixtures which supported the running of requests and shell commands through proxies to enable all unittest to be run from developer workstations against multiple environmentsbased on configurable settings. Made significant enhancements to backend service security as well as recommendations for software development process and architectural improvements that will greatly enhance the security and quality of the backend services. Re-wrote the Certificate Authority service adding support for documentation and API interaction through the Swagger User Interface generated by Flask-RestPlus. Removed dependencies on the EasyRSA scripts. Supported the implementation of In-App Purchase for the Rubica IPhone application as well as other feature implementation and bug fixes on existing services.

Performed code coverage testing on SyncIQ. Worked on a testing framework for testing the OneFS REST APIs. The python based test framework used multi-stage passes to scan OneFS APIs, code generate customizable modules for each URI, and code generated tests and test lists. The generated testcase content was able to be varied based on python code templates and generated void and valid data space parameter combinations. The testcase code was modifiable and would recode sections of itself during scans but preserve modifiable sections during automatic update runs to improve code maintainability. The project as a whole was comprised of about 5000 python files containing handwritten, code generated, and mixed mode python code. The test framework supports success, failure, limitation, user role, performance test as well as performance and surface area coverage metrics. Worked on a test framework and test code organizational layout “TestLab”. Included refined versions of previous projects for test seeding, data pattern generation, test scanning and publishing of metadata, python code generation helper modules, client and cluster interop code. Worked on an event driven test framework for running test events during Non-Disruptive Upgrade processes for OneFS clusters. The NDU Test Framework allowed for the orchestration of multiple feature testing through the lifecycle of arbitrary OneFS upgrade scenarios. The NDU Test Framework ran off cluster and utilized custom RPYC services and SSH protocols to allow for the monitoring, testing, diagnostic captures and test code persistence across node remimaging.

Working with the Microsoft Robotics group as an SDET.

Software Test consultant. Worked as a Software Test Automation Engineer for the Student Assignment System for the Seattle School District. Developed automation tools for testing the batch student assignment processes and for User Interface testing of the web client. The work included design and implementation of automation frameworks and integration of automation with SharePoint services. (C#) Worked as a Software Engineer in Test at TMobile on a project to create a dashboard to monitor core business processes. (C#)

Software Test Engineer for the Office Live Workspaces online document sharing web application. Worked on product code coverage, live site monitoring, and feature testing. Did some automation framework design and implementation. (C#)

Performed feature additions to the desktop client. Performed debugging of desktop client code and website code.

Worked on porting Linux Desktop Testing Platform (LDTP) to Access linux platform. Added automation support for some custom 'Access' controls.

Developed test tools for quality assurance testers to use when testing the operating system. Designed and implemented a Python automation environment to allow test tools to be easily integrated into the companies software configuration management system. Designed and implemented desktop to device interoperability servers and client libraries, enabling live on device Gremlins testing for the first time in the history of the company (C, C++). Wrote a custom scripting GUI for PalmOS Cobalt 6.0 called Howdy, which allowed for the recording and playback of user events as well as device scripting in three .NET languages (J#, C# and VB). Co-wrote the SilkTest scripting agent for PalmOS Cobalt 6.0 (C, C++). Did some hardware modification work allowing automated control of device reference boards using usb devices (Phidgets) enabling the complete automation of the device flashing and reboot processes.Purchased by Access - See previous work history entry

Responsible for the development of the Operating Systems Security API test suites(C, C++). Developed a test planning tool for generating test framework code (C#). Did preliminary work on a Python automation environment.

Built custom operating system builds for mobile computing devices. Developed an LED driver(C). Developed Windows Bitmap decoder for the Opera web browser that shipped with BeIA 2.0 (C++). Implemented storage of raw data into the operating systems global storage cache (similar to the Windows Registry) (C++). Performed operating system testing (C++).